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If you do not let me down—that is, if reminders and requests are strictly business-like (without departmental squabbles or polemics)—then in 2 minutes I will be signing such reminders and requests and they will sometimes be of practical benefit*.

With best wishes for speedy and great success for your
invention and with greetings
V. Ulyanov (Lenin)

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ADDITIONS TO THE DRAFT DECREE OF THE COUNCIL OF PEOPLE'S COMMISSARS
ON A UNIFIED TRACTOR ECONOMY**

November 2, 1920

§ 8. Obligate the People's Commissariat of Agriculture to submit to the Council of People's Commissars once monthly, beginning December 1, in brief written form information on the number of serviceable tractors;
» unserviceable, but admitting repair;
» repaired;
» being produced in the Russian SFSR;
» ordered abroad and brought from abroad;
» in training and completing the course of tractor mechanics.

* On December 11, 1920, having heard a report on the progress of work of Hydropeat, the Council of People's Commissars resolved:
"a) To accept in principle the proposals of Hydropeat concerning permission, as an exception, to purchase certain instruments on the free market and concerning the militarization of Hydropeat personnel, and to entrust the Small Council and the Defense Council, as appropriate, to confirm them in final form.
b) ...To indicate that Hydropeat must direct its reports to the Council of People's Commissars through the Main Peat Administration and the presidium of the Supreme Council of the National Economy.
c) To entrust Hydropeat in its next report to pay great attention to the expansion of work toward the coming season in general and to the possibility for this purpose of obtaining machines and instruments from abroad, as well as attracting engineers and technicians, etc.
d) To entrust Hydropeat in particular to concern itself with increasing the number of peat excavators that could be put into operation in the shortest time" (Protocol No. 404, item 9).

** This decree provided—in order to properly organize the tractor economy—the following procedure:
"All tractors with all spare parts, tractor agricultural implements and vehicles of whatever systems they may be, shall be registered with the People's Commissariat of Agriculture and distributed by it in accordance with the general production plan."

YEAR 1920

ON THE INTRODUCTION OF THE BASIC NORM OF WORKER SUPPLY

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[DRAFT QUESTIONS FOR A COUNCIL OF PEOPLE'S COMMISSARS RESOLUTION
November 2, 1920

The previous quantity of foodstuffs?
1) Or less? Or more? And by how much?
2) Reduction of 18 norms to 5?
3) Reduction in actually received through establishing a different order of priority?
To which categories? To how many workers in each category? By how much less?
4) Railway workers?

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DRAFT RESOLUTION OF THE COUNCIL OF PEOPLE'S COMMISSARS*

November 6, 1920

Recognizing the policy of the People's Commissariat of Food Supply as entirely correct, consisting in reducing the number of supply norms, instruct the Food Commissariat to submit a decree on reducing the number of bread distribution norms with an exact list of these norms.

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LETTER TO THE COMMISSION
ON WORKER SUPPLY**

November 12, 1920

Is it not possible on the question of the number of worker supply norms to establish the following procedure:
1) to establish by numbers the minimum quantities of norms, for example:
norm No. 1 standard minimum
» No. 2 somewhat higher, such-and-such amount
» No. 3

* The sketch written by V. I. Lenin was included in the resolution of the Council of People's Commissars adopted on November 6, 1920.
** On the original written by V. I. Lenin, there is his instruction to the secretary: "Type it up and give it to me for signature."